On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:39:27AM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote:
|right now i run KDE2 and i like it a lot. but i've seen screenshots of gnome
|apps running with enlightment and they are extremely visually pleasing. is
|kde2 capable of doing this?
Yes...
|what is kde2? what is gnome? what is enlightenment?
KDE and GNOME are desktop managers.
Enlightenment is a window manager.
|why does enlightenment run on top of gnome? can it run on top of kde2? if
|not, why not, and why does it run on top of gnome?
When GNOME first showed up the only window manager that support it was
Enlightenment.
In GNOME spec, there isn't any `default' window manager, GNOME can use any
window manager that's compliant with GNOME specification. Unlike GNOME, KDE
has a standard window manager, I think it's calles kwm. But we can change
kwm with any window manager that's KDE aware, like, of course Enlightenment.
So I guess that's answered your question: yes, Enlightenment can run with
KDE 1.x and KDE 2.0.
|why is it possible to run gnome apps from kde2? can gnome run kde2 apps?
Apps is not window manager related. Apps run on X. X servers take care of
displaying apps on screen, and one of them is passing those routines to
window managers.
|why is it that i can get gnome apps running in kde2, but they don't look half
|as good as if they were running in gnome/enlightenment?
I think it's because somehow, when run in KDE 2.0, KDE doesn't seem to
honour $HOME/.gtkrc. Please CMIIW. It has something to do with the toolkit
that default GNOME apps use. The default toolkit used for GNOME compliant
apps is GTK while for KDE, it is QT.
|i think i read a post on a newsgroup once abou running enlightenment in kde2.
| the poster said that if he does this, he'd lose a lot of functionality of
|kde2, but it would look a lot better. what does this mean?
Default functionality in KDE that is tight-up with kwm will be lost if kwn
is replaced by other window managers.
|i really need some light shed on this subject. oh how i wish things were
|simple like back in the win32 days...heh, just kidding...;)
Actually WIN32 have these kind of stuffs too. If you want an analogy, here's
one by me:
X server - WIN32 GUI subsystem
Window Manager and Desktop manager - I don't know, USER.EXE? Well, don't
flame me if I got it wrong, I'm just guessing :)
Toolkit - msvcrt.dll????
|thank you,
|christopher
Regards,
John
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